10-letter words containing t, n, o
- crinolette — a steel framework worn under the skirt to distend its rear section, fashionable in the mid-18th century
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- criterions — Plural form of criterion.
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croton oil — a yellowish-brown oil obtained from the plant Croton tiglium, formerly used as a drastic purgative
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryoconite — a dark powder found at the bottom of glacier holes, formerly thought to be cosmic in origin but now widely regarded to be terrestrial
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cuckoopint — a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cunctation — delay
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- cut no ice — to fail to make an impression
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cystinosis — a disease caused by a build-up of the amino acid cystine in the body
- cytoglobin — (protein) A globin that is produced by all types of human and other mammalian cells.
- cytokinins — Plural form of cytokinin.
- cytotoxins — Plural form of cytotoxin.
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- damnations — Plural form of damnation.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datamation — the processing of data by computers
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dead point — dead center
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.